“The Lebanese Community of Mexico and the Development of Mexican Film"

 
 
Dr. Carlos Martínez Assad, Professor Emeritus, National Autonomous University of Mexico and 2013 Winner of Mexico’s National Prize for Arts and Sciences, is the author of numerous books and articles on Mexican history, politics, culture, and film, and two books and a novel on the Middle East. He has been a columnist for various Mexican newspapers, presently he is writing for El Universal.   
 
The documentary, La historia en la mirada (The Gaze of History) on the Mexican Revolution, for which he did the historical research and screenplay, won the Ariel (Mexican Oscar) for best documentary in 2010. At UK, he will be presenting his documentary on the Lebanese community in Mexico. (The Lebanese in Mexican film – with English subtitles.)  Discussion to follow.
 

 

 

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Hardymon Theater @ the Marksbury Building

Esposito Opens Discussion of Islam

One of the most respected American scholarly authority on Islam, John L. Esposito, will visit the University of Kentucky Wednesday to discuss “The Future of Islam: Assessing the Elements of Reform, Revival, and Fundamentalism in the Muslim World.” The community is invited to attend his presentation at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, at the Singletary Center Recital Hall.

Ukraine

A briefing and geopolitical account by a former Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine. Gwen Schaefer, a recent graduate of the University of Kentucky, was deployed to Ukraine this year when Corps personnel were directed to leave the country as the political situation deteriorated. The developments over the summer after she left the county will also be adressed. Schaefer will be starting a new Peace Corps mission to Macedonia in September.

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Taylor Education Building Room 231

"My Father’s Paradise: How a Jewish Kid from Los Angeles Traveled to Wartime Iraq in Search of Roots, Identity and His Father's Improbable Life Story "

 

In his talk, Sabar will weave the remarkable story of the Kurdish Jews and their dying Aramaic tongue with the moving tale of how a consumate Californai kid came to write a book about his family's past in Iraqi Kurdistan. The book, "My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq," won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, one of the highest honors in American letters.



Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program

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UKAA Auditorium @ WT Young Library

The Significance of Being First; Competing: Jewish and Arab Discourses

Dr. Ilan Troen is the Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies and Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. He has authored 11 books in American, Jewish and Israeli history.
 
Ilan Troen will examine the ways in which claims to the Holy Land are made. This complex and contentious subject is at the root of the Arab/Israeli conflict. Historical claims are now perhaps the most significant and contentious. In the case of the land of Israel/Palestine those claims are mixed with the religious traditions of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and even secular Jews and Arabs reference continuities with the ancient past as a means of claiming priority. The presentation will attempt to clarify this extraordinarily complex issue.

Sponsored by Jewish Studies Program and the Department of History

 

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UKAA Auditorium @ WT Young Library

“Islamist Thought and the Egyptian Revolution”

“Political Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian Politics”

7:00 pm  W.T. Young Auditorium

Associate Professor of Islamic Law, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law

Scholar of Islamic Law and Islamist/Reformist Thought

Author of the book: Muslim Reformists, Female Citizenship and the Public Accommodation of Islam in Liberal Democracy

Articles: “Islamic Politics and Secular Politics: Can They Co-Exist” and “Judicial Institutions, the Legitimacy of the Islamic State Law and Democratic Transition in Egypt”

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WT Young Library Auditorium

"How US Policy on Palestine Contributes to the Impasse."

This lecture will examine American efforts to further a "peace process" that has in fact exacerbated the conflict, and will explore how the US could contribute to a just resolution of the Palestine issue.

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and chair of the Department of History at Columbia University. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1970 and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974, and has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and at the University of Chicago. He is past President of the Middle East Studies Asociation, was an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the 1991-1993 Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, and is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.

Khalidi is the author of seven books: Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East;  Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East; The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood; Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East; Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness; Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War; and British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914. 

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Memorial Hall
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